Ghosts

by Blue Neustifter

There's a ghost in your house. There has been since you moved in.

You bought magnets for the fridge, sets of letters, bright and colourful and friendly.

The ghost has started using them to talk to you.

Ghosts is a short story about a haunting, about life, and about hope. Originally published on Twitter in 2018, it was put on the Otherwise Award Long List in 2019 and was published in Transcendent 4: The Year's Best Transgender Speculative Fiction (edited by Bogi Takács).

Genres: Queer

10 pages, ebook

About the author

Blue Midnight Canis (she/her; formerly Blue Neustifter) is a white, queer trans woman and 2022 finalist for a Hugo Award in the "Best Short Story" category for her epistolary story "Unknown Number". In addition to writing speculative fiction, she is a statistician, published board game designer, and unapologetic dyke She lives in Ontario and is trying to help make the world a little better how she can.

Reviews

[liminal cryptid · Rating 5 out of 5]

Don’t mind me, just crying over a lovely little story about a ghost and a trans fem MC. You know, as you do.